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Four Years That Shook the World
Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917–1921
By Antony Beevor
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Love in a Cold City
Deceit
By Yuri Felsen (Translated from Russian by Bryan Karetnyk)
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Editor-in-Chief of the USSR
Stalin’s Library: A Dictator and His Books
By Geoffrey Roberts
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Prophet of Doom
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
By Glenn Cronin
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Disinterring Anton Chekhov
Old rumours & new finds
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From the May 2021 Issue
Eau de Hammer & Sickle
The Scent of Empires: Chanel No. 5 and Red Moscow
By Karl Schlögel (Translated from German by Jessica Spengler)
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From the March 2021 Issue
The Lesser Evil?
Journey into the Land of the Zeks and Back: A Memoir of the Gulag
By Julius Margolin (Translated from Russian by Stefani Hoffman)
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From the February 2021 Issue
The Eternal Husband
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
By Alex Christofi
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From the December 2020 Issue
Pro-Sex, Anti-Stalin
Collected Poems
By Robert Conquest (Edited by Elizabeth Conquest)
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All the President’s Murderers
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West
By Catherine Belton
Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem, and Russia’s Remaking of the West
By Luke Harding
Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin’s Russia
By Joshua Yaffa
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Hitler’s More Willing Executioners
Our People: Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust
By Rūta Vanagaitė & Efraim Zuroff
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The Monks who Came in from the Cold
Spies and Scholars: Chinese Secrets and Imperial Russia’s Quest for World Power
By Gregory Afinogenov
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From the March 2020 Issue
Sorrows of Hungary
Katalin Street
By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
Abigail
By Magda Szabó (Translated from Hungarian by Len Rix)
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From the December 2019 Issue
Pride, Prejudice & Pushkin
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor
By Vladimir Nabokov (Edited by Brian Boyd & Anastasia Tolstoy)
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Madness & Misanthropy
Bellevue
By Ivana Dobrakovová (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)
Big Love
By Balla (Translated by Julia & Peter Sherwood)
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Artists & Lovers
The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
By Orlando Figes
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Not Undiscovered
The Undiscovered Chekhov: Thirty-Eight New Stories
By Translated and Edited by Peter Constantine
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An Explanation at Last for his Tragic End
Pushkin's Button
By Serena Vitale (Translated by Ann Goldstein and Jon Rothschild)
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When Knowledge Met Power
Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
By Robert Zaretsky
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Griboyedov’s Last Journey
Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar
By Yuri Tynianov (Translated by Susan Causey)
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